A little over a year ago I bought a big Logitech gaming keyboard. At the time I said ask me in a year how it had been to use. Well it was awful to use because of the sculpted keycaps that my fingers caught on when typing making me press multiple keys all the time (and the way I hammer keys, I'm surprised the backspace key didn't wear out). It was also enormous, taking up far too much of my desk space. and every so often the Logitech software would just forget all of my customisations, meaning I never really used the per-key lighting because it was a pain to set it all back up again. I finally snapped and it has now been replaced:

It's a Corsair K65 RGB. It has Cherry MX Red keyswitches which are a little nicer than Logitech's that the G910 used, though they're also quite a bit louder. It feels a lot like the late 80s/early 90s IBM one that we still have one of at work. I can type so much more quickly on this thing, it's amazing. It has the same per-key lighting as the G910, but none of the extra stuff. I will miss the scroll-wheel style volume control though.

And yes, I bought one of the matching Corsair RGB mouse mats to go with it. The cheap, massive mouse mat I bought last year turned out to be nearly impossible to clean properly. It was £30-something in the Amazon sale a few days ago and I couldn't resist. It is, as you'd sorta hope if you were spending the RRP of £60ish, a really good mouse mat, and it tracks better than the cheap thing.

Thankfully the G502 mouse remains the best mouse I've ever used, so at least one thing from that order survived.

Didn't we have a thread on speakers where it turned out just about everyone on the forum used Creative T20s?

I did use the macro keys for Windows actions when I first got the Logitech board, but after the second time the software lost my settings, I just reverted back to using the default key combos. I don't think I've used a macro in a game since Ultima Online 16 years ago.

I was thinking about upgrading to the T40s a while ago, but the 20s are perfect really in terms of size and quality. You can push them pretty loud and I don't think I'd realistically need anything larger for my flat before I started annoying my neighbours. Expensive headphones are for when you really want to crank the volume.